Izmir Turkey Hosts Street Festival With Balkan Dance Performances

Folk dance groups from 11 Balkan countries gathered in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, Turkey for the 13th annual Balkan Folk Dance Festival. The dance groups performed in different districts of Izmir. Aside from Turkey, dance groups from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Greece came together to dance. VOA’s Soner Kizilkaya attended one of the festivals and filed this report narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.